Erm... MacOS X?

Jerome Chan eviltofu at rocketmail.com
Sat Jun 3 12:55:00 EDT 2000


In article <usenet-6DC18E.10333803062000 at news.visi.com>, James Felix 
Black <usenet at inter-slice.com> wrote:

> In article <eviltofu-1AEA18.02454303062000 at news.earthlink.net>, Jerome 
> Chan <eviltofu at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone compiled Python for MacOS X?
> 
> Yes.  It builds right out of the box.  The only trap is if you build on 
> an HFS+ as opposed to UFS volume; then, you have to be careful about 
> case (HFS+ is case-insensitive but preserving.)
> 
> (jfb)

The problem with UFS is that the MacOS portion of MacOS X has problems 
with it as of DP 4. Someone should patch the configuration files and 
send in an update. I'm too new to autoconf to figure this out.



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